Event report: kintone hive Tokyo vol.5

kintone hive tokyo vol. 5 was held on May 19th, 2017 at Roppongi Academy Hills. Please keep reading
for summaries of each presentation.

User Case 1

Company-wide improvement directed by Amateurs

XEBEC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.

Department Manager Madoka Hondo

The first presenter was Ms.Hondo from Xebec Technologies, which sells manufacturing tools for deburring and polishing materials. Despite
Ms. Hondo's inexperience with IT, when she encountered kintone she immediately realized that it had the potential to vastly improve the operational efficiency of the whole company.

She went on to explain how she used kintone to bring about such widespread change. The company initially used a simple customer and lead
management system for the sales department. However, “the web based system that we first constructed was very limited in searching and utilization. We selected an internationally well known tool,
but there were limitations in the screen layout and data entry methods,” she explained. Eventually, the sales team grew so dissatisfied that there were many cases were personnel were actively
avoiding inputting data into the system. So, in order to have flexibility, lower costs and be able to do maintenance without the support of engineers, they decided to transition to
kintone.

She reflected on their path to full utilization of kintone by referencing the Gartner Hype Cycle. During the trial period, where
expectations were at their peak, they tried to find ways for many team members to have practice using kintone, such as demonstrating management applications.

In order to minimize dissatisfaction during the 'period of disillusionment,' they started looking into customization capabilities,
Ms.Hondo consulted developers about possible improvements. Looking back on the activities done to raise awareness as they approached the stability period, she noted that kintone became a tool for
proactive business optimization. Now, the number of personnel capable of doing maintenance on kintone is increasing, and they hope that all employees will become deeply connected through they
system as they continue development.

“It is essential to understand the needs of users to determine how to grow and change apps to maximize user friendliness,” she stated
emphatically. Finally, Ms.Hondo addressed the audience, “kintone is the best tool for providing opportunities to optimize the efficiency of your business, as it expands the list of people capable
of making significant improvements.”

User Case 2

Customer Management System Integration from a Marketing Perspective

The next presentation was by Mr. Watarai from Renoveru, which both renovates and sells old apartments. It was necessary for them to build
a strong foundation to optimize use of their IT procedures, use data effectively as they developed a new marketplace.

Initially, the process of taking a customer from web visitor to direct support would take around 6 months. During that complicated
process, a large quantity of information is acquired. Mr. Watarai investigated how various information acquired through that process may be useful to the marketing team. They considered
constructing a customer management system to manage this information collectively. At the same time, he thought it was important that they choose a solution where it was easy to control access
permissions when collaborating with external partners and that even non-engineers can build.

Eventually, they found that kintone met all their requirements. He reflected on their decision, stating that "we estimated that it would
take roughly 7 months for us to self-develop a system, and of course it was possible that our operational processes would change during that time. We chose kintone as an environment that could be
implemented immediately."

Following the actual construction process, kintone became the base of business, as the accuracy of data entered was increased by dividing
browsing and analytical apps from data input apps, and incorporating essential business operations, such as managing construction contracts, into the system. In order for the planning department,
which was very accustomed to using excel, to become familiar with kintone through a user-friendly interface, Mr. Watarai created a dashboard full of information so they could easily have numbers
based discussions. In the end, kintone made it possible to expand the distribution of information regarding users with finishing contracts. The kintone alert function further enabled them to
create and optimize a standard customer communication scheme. Now, Mr. Watarai says that “all employees can discuss the same numbers, and since less time is being spent on data entry, the focus
can remain on the core business operations. Customer data can now be used as a marketing tool, which is very significant for the company.

kintone hack

Examples of plug-ins and customization - Secrets M-Solutions!

Company: M-SOLUTIONS,Inc.

CSO Manabu Uekusa

The first kintone hack champion, Mr. Uekusa from M-Solutions, which deals with the cloud service “Smart at”, as well as IoT app
development, mobile and web app development, presented their latest kintone use-case. “Recently, there has been an increasing number of cases requiring collaborative ‘participatory system
development’" he began, referencing a SI trend. Regarding customers with whom they had development capability concerns, in order to be able to develop, they would offer charity of minimum
customization. He introduced an example of proactive plugin utilization in joint SI development. When excel has come to be used for processes such as lead management and quote creation, they
often implement kintone with a combination of form solutions.

“Depending on form output and necessary report complexity, we may recommend different PDF output services,” he explained. Regarding how to
utilize kintone as a system integrator, he described how their own company uses kintone for inquiry and sales management, and to manage their own services. Along with the concept of “develop what
you can by yourself without using any complicated customization techniques” he also quickly introduced several plugins for menu conversion, automatic lookup acquisition and access log output.
Within his 5 minutes, Mr. Uekusa displayed roughly 50 slides at a casual tempo. Finally, he announced that M-Solution's new “Search Function Expansion Plugin” which supports additional numerical
and date fields would be made free for a limited period of time.

Some practice with a futuristic kintone interface

The next presentation was from Ryu Yamashita from JOYZO Inc., who features a new kintone interface (UI) solution for data input at each of
his presentations. This time, he demonstrated how he can expand the interface into the physical space around him.

He simply held his smartphone out and demonstrated how all kintone information can be displayed as
tags floating freely in the air so that information from a kintone record is displayed in an augmented reality space.

He suggested several possible uses for this
technology. Sales teams visiting a customer can view customer information through the camera, or view pending issues for each store location. He also discussed how AR technology can be used as a
new matching interface for services like UBER which displays information about nearby available taxis.

As a demonstration, demonstrated what happens when you input a request to kintone. That request information is automatically set as a
kintone record along with your GPS determined location. Other people who are searching for work can then use their smartphone to view your request and location. Unfortunately due to network
connectivity issues, the demonstration could not proceed smoothly, but he was able to put up a request stating “someone fix it, my demo is failing!” The hall was impressed by his quick
thinking.

A work style revolutionary hack - kintone chatbot integration

Also from JOYZO Inc. Mr. Yasutaka Shinomiya, also known as Mr. kintone, introduced a workstyle reform solution through chatbot
integration. Aside from easy system development, he listed these 3 main functions of kintone: databases, workflows and communication.

By connecting a flow form communication function using the business messaging tool 'direct' to the stock type data accumulation
functionality, you can reshape the way that kintone works for your company. "Through direct's bot function, you can implement a completely new interface for data entry." Specifically, he
mentioned bots dedicated to photo and daily reporting, as well as GPS location tracking. He demonstrated how during a simple conversation with a bot, essential information was input automatically
into kintone. Within JOYZO, they use a bot that is also capable of answering questions to process work reports. Through bots like this, even employees with relatively low IT literacy can easily
input data into kintone. Finally, as Mr. Shinomiya has made customary, he concluded the presentation with an announcement for a new plugin from JOYZO for Table View Editing.

H2O Space Co.,Ltd Makoto Taniguchi

To start the 2nd half of kintone hive Tokyo, H2O Space made their kintone hive debut with a presentation by Taniguchi Makoto about the use
of barcodes to enter data into a library database. For companies like H2O Space which track large numbers of books, managing all these copies is a large task, so this application is essential to
them. A search machine was installed in the space, and by inputting the ISBN or Title, you can have all publishing information available on the Google Books API inputted into kintone. It is also
easy to have an image of the cover included in this information. He displayed the original screen that utilizes HTML, CSS and Javascript and incited a laugh from the audience when he shared that
he was the author of every book displayed in the photo.

Because it can be time consuming to simply record a large quantity of books, using a USB barcode scanner to read ISBN codes can make
recording information a faster process that requires only the click of a button. There are numerous other applications for using a barcode scanner along with kintone. For example, he suggested
this technology can be used to scan attendee badges at events, employee ID cards for clocking in and out of the office, or for taking inventory.

Let's enjoy kintone together!

Radical Bridge

President Sakae Saito

Mr. Saito from Radical Bridge, also known by the nickname "Uncle Cloud", is a kintone evangelist and the founder of kintone Café. As one
of his multiple business, Mr. Saito also manages Tetoco, which is used as a customer management application designed for personal classroom management with kintone as a base.

He emphasized several attractive qualities of kintone such as the "convenient, fast and reasonable structure that everyone appreciates.
And as a blackbox you can reclaim control over system development." He felt so passionately about this that he started kintone Cafe, which now boasts branches all over Japan that all together
have held more than 146 kintone Cafe events. He noticed significant demand for a Google Calendar-esque feature. In response, he developed the Calendar Plus Plugin. It only takes 8 seconds,
opposed to the standard 22 seconds per kintone page, to register data. There was also a steep decrease in the number of steps required. Also, regarding requests for a Google Calendar Integration,
due to kintone’s new REST API support service, Webhook, users can now easily establish a system where appropriate kintone records are automatically registered in Google Calendar. Finally, a
special limited edition offer for participants was introduced, and he hoped that the audience would have "a wonderful kintone life!"

Hacking education by kintone

R3 Institute

Chief Innovation Officer Toshiyuki Konparu

The final presentation was by Mr. Konparu from R3 Institute, who was previously named the kintone hack Champion in 2016. This presentation
was not focused on plugins or customization, but rather he discussed their recent collaboration with Ritsumeikan University where they tackled innovative education through kintone. Students
focusing on the social sciences and management can gain firsthand experience to understand how both general business administration and the system work. Mr. Konparu also explained how it was
enlightening to see how non-STEM students worked with the system. In practical skills classes, students were given a workflow and asked to develop a corresponding kintone
application.

Each group then came up with different methods to create a procedural app. Even when given the same prompt, it was surprising how
different the apps turned out, and how with just a little training, even non-STEM students could create effective apps. They learned that it was difficult to create a specialized app with only
virtual collaboration, so Mr. Konparu has decided to work more closely in person with NPO entities to develop apps that can be used widely in real business scenarios. Finally he said that
“whenever the company repeats this process, the results are incredibly interesting. Please give it a try!”

Social gathering

Following the event, Ms. Hondo from Xebec Technologies began the reception with a toast. Posters of our recent advertising campaign seen
in Tokyo subway stations that showed working people with easily relatable phrases such as "No overtime! No need to beat the budget!" were distributed for attendees to display in their own
workplaces. These posters strongly appealed to those who couldn't directly express their interest in kintone.

Later, as a closing statement, supporting the event from Osaka, Mr. Norio Kuroki of at-creation and Ms. Kana Taketomi from 2016 kintone
Award Finalist Kobe Digital Labs congratulated Cybozu on the success of kintone hive Osaka. Up until the end of the reception, there was certainly an exciting energy in the venue.

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